January 18, 1990

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Dear Students;

the staff and management of the Panther Lounge would like to welcome you back and wish you the best of luck in the new decade.

It was almost twenty years ago when the UPEI Student Union added the Panther Lounge to many of its excisting services. Today, the Panther Lounge like the Student Union is run by students for students. As a student and the Panther Lounge manager, I wish to provide the student body with the best entertainment and pro- gramming in town. I want to make it all that you, the students, want it to be. I ask for ideas and suggestions that will make the Panther Lounge a true student Lounge. Please leave your sugges- tions and ideas in the suggestion box in the student union or at the Barn.

Thank you

Bob Chapman

Panther Lounge Manager.

Bursaries

Part—time Student Bursaries

(2 of $125 each)

The terms of these bursaries are as follows:

1. The applicant must be able to demonstrate financial need,

2. must be registered for either 3 or 6 semester hours of credit in the second semester,

3. must have received passing grades in all courses in the last semester registered at UPEI, :

4. must be working towards a first degree as opposed to up- .

grading for a second degree.

Application forms are available at the Registrar’ s Office or at Student Services. Closing Date for applications is Friday, 9 Febru- ary 1990.

UPEI Awards

Several awards ranging from $125 to $300 are available for the second semester and will be awarded by the Scholarship and Bur- sary Committee in February.

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Full-time students in any year may apply. One of the major requirements considered is need.

Application forms are available at the registrar’s office or at student services. Closing date for applications is Friday, February 9 1990. ;

Residence Bursary — Bernardine Hall ($500)

Following are the terms of reference for the above-named bur- sary:

1. recipient must be a Junior of Senior student living in Bernar- dine Hall who has lived there for at least two years.

2. Must have an average of 65% or better in last semester’s work and passing grades in all five subjects.

3. must write a personal essay about what she/he has partici- pated in during her/his years in residence. How has she/he helped to promote spirit in Bernardine Hall?

4. selection to be made by the Scholarship and Bursary Com- mittee and two people from Counselling Services.

5. The selection to be made in conjunction with other bursaries awarded form the Memorial bursary fund.

Application forms are available at the Registrar’s Office or at Student Services. Closing date for applications is Friday, 9 Febru- ary 1990.

fielder on the Bayport High base- ball team,” and Phil Cohen, “a quiet bookish boy.”

The style shifts dramatically from the first to second editions. Gone are the direct addresses to the reader, and most of the omni- scient narrator scenes, where the story shifted from the crooks to the Hardys with feverish aban- don.

In today’s forgettable paper- back editions, the emphasis is definitely on what 1980s children supposedly construe as action- packed. The Hardys become much more global in scope, and tackle far more espionage and vi- olence cases. Critics say the av- erage age of readers, along with their attention span and number of books in the series they read is gradually decreasing. Where ten to forteen was once thought to be the average readers’ age, it is now somewhere around nine to eleven.

Odd, then, that a strict re- quirement of the first editions — that there be no murder -— is im- mediately violated in the new edi- tions. Iola Morton, Chet’s sis- ter and Joe’s girlfriend, is killed in the first episode. The story concentrates on the terrorists re- sponsible, and Joe seems remark- ably meek towards the men who have killed his “special friend.” An eerie echo of early editions persists (a bashful Joe once said “She’s all right — for a girl”)

Some other changes, among many:

* The Mystery of the Flying Ezpress, originally about a gang of crooks who used the railroad

for transportation was rewritten in the 40s, and is now about a hy- drofoil. Suspicious characters are

interesting

trying to sabotage the craft, and the owner can’t figure out why; * The Flickering Torch Mys- tery, originally about some moth thefts from an eccentric scien- tist and a strange torch signal used by the culprits, was retooled

in the 1950s to chronicle ura-.

nium smuggling. A pleasant side- line to the story was the mem- bership of the Hardys and their friends in a five-set rock combo that played the club The Flicker- ing Torch, where some amplifier tomfoolery — among other things — took place;

“* The old Polucca place, gang hideout for smugglers in the orig- inal House on the Cliff, becomes the Pollitt place, home of Fe- lix Snattman and cronies in later editions;

* The ever-intrusive Laura Hardy is circumspectly removed from later editions of The Secret of the Old Mill. In the origi- nal, the boys’ mother is fooled by counterfeiters when she buys a rug for $800. The boys them- ‘selves are taken in by a stranger

asking for change for a five. In the early 1960s, these episodes are replaced by the ever- hungry Chet’s purchase of a microscope. The bogus bills have now been upgraded to $20s.

Weird Co-Incidences Were Sometimes

Hard To Swallow

(CUP) Overly sophisticated and complicated plotlines were never the recipe prescribed for a good mystery, at least not by the authors of The Hardy Boys se- ries. After a certain age (pre- sumably 14, the age at which

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the back cover says boys will still enjoy (“lively adventure stories” ) things can be seen to fit into a rather tidy pattern.

And isn’t it a little fishy that:

* In The Mystery of the Flying Ezpress, Chet’s love of horoscopes foreshadows the pas- time of the criminal ringleader

Hooks Zigurski, knicknamed ‘Zo- diac Zig’ by his cellmates.

* His judo interest in The Arc- tic Patrol Mystery is used pre- dictably in the takeover of the plane at the end of the story?

* Some of his failed magic tricks in The Secret Agent on Flight 101 serve as a slightly sinis- ter backdrop for something a lit- tle more serious — a real] magician making Fenton Hardy do a disap- pearing act for most of the book?

* The Hardys have always been amateur radio hams, but it’s not until Chet catches the fever in The Short Wave Mystery that they pick up a scrambled broad- cast from the aardvark gang?

* Chet’s spelunking in The Mystery of the Chinese Junk leads to a missing cuff link Fen- ton Hardy wanted to find, and thereby establishes a crucial link between the boys’ case and his?

* Chet rescues the brothers with an ice machine he invented in The Yellow Feather Mystery? Sealed inside an ice fort, the Hardys are saved when Chet’s machine crashes through.

Trivia For The Brain-Dead

(CUP) Amidst all the Hardy Boys series hype — the TV series,

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confront us today:

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